 | The Polish Way: A Thousand Year History of the Poles and Their Culture by Adam Zamoyski
Buy used from: £9.94 The struggles have been going on for over one thousand years....
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 | The Early Slavs: Culture and Society in Early Medieval Eastern Europe by P.M. Barford
Buy used from: £20.32 Out of many peoples, emerged the Polanie ('the people of the fields')....
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 | The Formation of the Polish State: The Period of Ducal Rule, 963-1194 by Tadeusz Manteuffel
Buy used from: £25.00 The fledgeling and ever-fragmenting Polish state was founded by Mieszko who, among other things, conquered Pomerania and established a new city at the mouth of the river Wisla, called Gdansk....
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 | The Northern Crusades by Eric Christiansen
Buy new: £6.68 / Used from: £3.50 The rise and fall of the Teutonic knights....
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| Rise of the Polish Monarchy: Piast Poland in East Central Europe, 1320-70 by Paul W. Knoll
Buy used from: £17.09 Finally, order out of chaos....
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 | The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795: 4 (A History of East Central Europe) by Daniel Z. Stone
Buy new: £31.35 / Used from: £124.21 Poland's union with Lithuania created a large multi-ethnic state, extending over the area occupied by present-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic states.
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| Jagiellonian Poland by Jasienca
Buy used from: £49.99 Poland's golden age - and while bloody religious wars raged across Europe, Catholic Poland offered refuge to Jews and Muslims as well as Protestant, Orthodox, Armenian and Uniate Christians.
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 | Jews in Poland: A Documentary History - The Rise of Jews as a Nation from Congressus Judaicus in Poland to the Knesset in Israel by Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski
Buy used from: £54.95 For several centuries most of the world's Jewish population lived within the borders of the old Polish commonwealth. 90% of Ashkenazic Jews alive today can trace their origins back to these lands.
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 | The Polish Armies, 1569-1696: v. 1 (Men-at-arms) by Richard Brzezinski
Buy used from: £5.95 See why the Polish military (notably the incredible winged hussars) kicked ass in eastern Europe until the end of the 17th century, protecting the west from Turks, Tartars and other eastern invaders.
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 | The Northern Wars, 1558-1721: War, State and Society in Northern Europe (Modern Wars In Perspective) by Robert I. Frost
Buy new: £24.99 / Used from: £25.01 After 2 centuries of Jagiellonian rule, Poland became a 'noble republic' (rzeczpospolita) with an elected king. The next 200 years of rapid decline and decay ended in its total destruction....
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 | The Partitions of Poland, 1772, 1793, 1795 by J.T. Lukowski
Buy new: £20.99 / Used from: £11.99 The tragic end of the 1st Polish republic. A treaty signed by Prussia, Austria and Russia in 1797 bound them to eliminate forever the very name of Poland, and to strive by any means for its oblivion.
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 | Thaddeus Kosciuszko: The Purest Son of Liberty by James S. Pula
Buy used from: £51.03 The Polish people have a long tradition of fighting for their freedom, often against impossible odds. Tadeusz Kosciuszko led the doomed insurrection against the partitioning powers.
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 | Napoleon's Campaign in Poland, 1806-07 (Greenhill Military Paperback) by F.Loraine Petre
Buy new: £12.59 / Used from: £8.00 A Frenchman full of empty promises. The Polish national anthem ('Poland will not die while we still live') originates from Napoleonic times (the Prussian and Tsarist governments banned it in 1815).
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 | 1812: "1812: March on Moscow", "1812: Napoleon in Moscow", "1812: The Great Retreat": Napoleon's Invasion of Russia by Paul Britten Austin
Buy used from: £17.25 The Grande-Armee had a 98000-strong Polish contingent. 72000 of them never returned, and hopes of resurrecting an independent Poland were again in vain.
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 | Lands of Partitioned Poland, 1795-1918 (A History of East Central Europe) by Piotr Wandycz
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £14.74 The divergent evolution of the lands under Prussian, Austrian and Russian rule and the threads which still bound them together, helping to preserve Poland's language and culture.
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| Polish Politics and the Revolution of November, 1830 by Robert Frank Leslie
Buy used from: £50.00 The next armed revolt against Russian rule also ended in defeat and was followed by a campaign of intense repression and mass deportations of thousands of Polish citizens to Siberia.
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| Reform and Insurrection in Russian Poland, 1856-65 (University of London. Historical Studies) by Robert Frank Leslie
Buy used from: £52.12 Another failed rebellion and another trail of tears leading all the way to exile in the east (or emigration to the new world)....
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| The Kulturkampf in Prussian Poland (East European Monographs) by Lech Trzeciakowski
Buy used from: £22.00 The Kulturkampf in Prussian Poland united Polish nationalism and the Catholic Church against forcible Germanisation, theories of 'Slavic racial inferiority' and the theft of Polish land....
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| A Suburb of Europe: Nineteenth-century Polish Approaches to Western Civilization by Jerzy Jedlicki
Buy new: £13.95 / Used from: £11.16 A century of debate about how to create and confront social change (very relevant today as Poland again assesses its place in the world after 45 years of isolation behind the Iron Curtain)....
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| Pilsudski: A Life for Poland by Waclaw Jedrzejewicz
Buy used from: £14.73 Only two figures in Poland's history have been given the title of 'Naczelnik Narodu'. Kosciuszko was the first, Pilsudski was the second....
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| The Reconstruction of Poland, 1914-23
Poland re-emerged as the eastern front collapsed at the end of WW1. Its western border was finalised by 3 insurrections in Slask (Silesia) and the eastern border by war with the Soviet Union.
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 | White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish-Soviet War, 1919-20 by Norman Davies
Buy new: £11.89 / Used from: £8.90 The only war the Soviets ever lost prior to the cold war saved the nascent Polish state and western Europe from a new variety of eastern invaders. 20 years later they would take their revenge....
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| From Versailles to Locarno: Keys to Polish Foreign Policy, 1919-25 by Anna M. Cienciala
Buy used from: £68.31 The Versailles treaty guaranteed Poland access to the sea and made Danzig/Gdansk a 'free' city. Disputes about these issues and Poland's borders also guaranteed future conflict with its neighbours....
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 | Bitter Glory: Poland and Its Fate 1918 to 1939 by Richard M. Watt
Buy used from: £18.99 Independence at last. But piecing together a viable state from the ashes of the partitions wasn't easy, and the 2nd Polish republic was short-lived....
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 | Eastern Europe and the Origins of the Second World War (Making of the 20th Century) by Anita Prazmowska
The expansionism of Germany and the Soviet Union (both determined to erase Poland - the 'bastard child of Versailles' - from the map once again) bolstered by the appeasement of Britain and France....
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